Erik, You and I agree completely!!! 100%!!! I'll manage my own media thank you very much!!! I know you feel exactly the same way as I do. Perhaps it's high time that we who feel this way should write Tim Cook and express our concerns. To speak frankly, (and when do I ever speak otherwise?) I feel that ITunes actuallly goes against what Steve Jobs always wanted for Apple.
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On May 17, 2013, at 8:56 AM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote: > Hi Ricardo. > > My main complaint with ITunes is that id does "manage" my media. I don't > want it or any player to do that. For example, I have thousands of > audiobooks here on a hard drive, many of which have broken or missing tags. > Same with music. I have a hole collection of flac files, many of which would > have to be retagged. My old roommate spent over 3 months retagging his music > collection so that it would go into ITunes properly. I don't like the > overhead it blows on large collections. I don't like the 20 and 30 step > processes required to do things like burning a CD. I can't stand the issues > like the one that started this discussion where Apple has decided they don't > want to support flac or some other type of media and forced you to go out and > do some fiddly-assed workaround to get your flacs into your library. I have > a lot of the same complaints with windows media player and other players. I > don't want a media manager. If Itunes would let me turn off it's library and > play an mp3 without giving me any crap, you'd never hear me complain. Other > players don't force you to import your files in a certain way. It's > optional. You can do it if you want, but if not, you just get on with the > music. > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the > ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog > Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2013-05-17, at 9:40 AM, Ricardo Walker <rwalker...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Lol, >> >> I know I'm probably going to be in the minority here but, I honestly don't >> have many problems with iTunes, Especially on the Mac. Do people not like >> iTunes because it forces you to handle your music in a specific way you >> aren't accustom to or, want? Or is there other reasons. Because for me, >> once I learned how iTunes treats your media, and how it goes about >> organizing and such, I don't find it any more cumbersome then any high end >> music app. For example, Windows media player. >> >> Just curious. :) >> >> Ricardo Walker >> rica...@appletothecore.info >> Twitter:@apple2thecore >> www.appletothecore.info >> >> On May 17, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Ray Foret Jr <rfore...@att.net> wrote: >> >>> Of course, about the only thing good about ITunes is it's .m4a format. >>> >>> >>> Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >>> built-in! >>> Sincerely, >>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray >>> Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! >>> >>> On May 17, 2013, at 6:54 AM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Christine, >>>> >>>> Sorry, I can't help being a bit sarcastic when it comes to ITunes. I >>>> really think switching to vlc is good advice. I just can't stand anything >>>> about ITunes. It seems to have worked for you too, so hopefully we're >>>> good. >>>> >>>> As far as getting the music onto your phone, there's dropbox, ICloud, that >>>> program that was free for a weekend a few weeks ago which let you browse >>>> your phone in an explorer on your computer… ITunes is not the tour de >>>> force it used to be. Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's >>>> awful. :) >>>> >>>> You do need to install flac support for your I device though if you want >>>> to play the tunes on your phone without converting. I haven't checked out >>>> ways for doing that in a couple of years, but some one probably has an >>>> answer. >>>> >>>> Have fun, >>>> >>>> Erik Burggraaf >>>> Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the >>>> ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog >>>> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 >>>> or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>>> >>>> On 2013-05-16, at 8:05 PM, Christine Grassman <cgrassman1...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> So if I download and install VLC, how does this impact my pre-existing >>>>> iTunes library? Does this also mean I will not be able to get these tunes >>>>> onto my iPhone? >>>>> >>>>> Christine >>>>> >>>>> On May 16, 2013, at 7:57 PM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Flac stands for free lossless audio codek. They ar compressed audio >>>>>> files that can be decompressed to the exact specification of the >>>>>> original audio. No quality loss. >>>>>> >>>>>> Apple doesn't support these as far as I know which is a great loss. You >>>>>> can do one of two things. The Approach I recommend if you really must, >>>>>> is download fluke and add Flack support to both ITunes and Finder. >>>>>> >>>>>> The other approach is to download flip for mac and install quicktime and >>>>>> then presumably it makes flac happen, but fluke is so easy when it works >>>>>> that I can't see why you'd want to bother. >>>>>> >>>>>> The third option which is what I recommend, is to ditch ITunes and get >>>>>> VLC. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hope this helps, >>>>>> >>>>>> Erik Burggraaf >>>>>> Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through >>>>>> the ontario disability support program at >>>>>> http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog >>>>>> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 >>>>>> or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com >>>>>> >>>>>> On 2013-05-16, at 7:40 PM, Christine Grassman <cgrassman1...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Has anyone ever heard of these? I was just sent some music which has >>>>>>> flac as an extension. 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